Rabid
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- This article is about the 1977 film. For other uses, see Rabies.
Rabid is a 1977 film written and directed by David Cronenberg. Marilyn Chambers stars, with Frank Moore, Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver and Robert A. Silverman, who would go on to become a regular Cronenberg actor, appearing in The Brood, Scanners, Naked Lunch and eXistenZ.
Plot summary
The story begins with Rose (Chambers) being seriously injured in an automobile accident. She is brought to a nearby research clinic where a radical attempt to use an experimental surgical technique causes Rose's body to mutate. The mutation results in her becoming an immune carrier of a disease that causes uncontrollable rage in its victims. As the disease spreads throughout the city, Rose realizes that it can only be stopped if she is stopped.
Cronenberg initially wanted to cast the unknown Sissy Spacek as Rose, but producer Ivan Reitman persuaded him to use the better-known Chambers instead.
See also
| Movies by David Cronenberg |
| Transfer | From the Drain | Stereo | Crimes of the Future | Shivers | Rabid | Fast Company | The Brood | Scanners | The Dead Zone | Videodrome | The Fly | Dead Ringers | Naked Lunch | M. Butterfly | Crash | eXistenZ | Spider | A History of Violence |